McCann friend is certain she saw abduction

A FAMILY friend of Kate and Gerry McCann has described for the first time why she is convinced that she saw their daughter Madeleine being abducted shortly before she was reported missing.

Jane Tanner, 36, saw a man carrying a child wearing pink and white pyjamas away from the McCanns’ holiday apartment on the Algarve in Portugal.

The sighting was considered so significant by the McCanns that they commissioned their own artist’s impression, which they released last week.

At the time Tanner attached little significance to the sighting, assuming that Madeleine had recently been checked. She instead returned to the tapas bar where the McCanns and other friends were eating.